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Chelmsford seeks to ban trucks on Golden Cove Road

By Grant Welker, gwelker@lowellsun.com

Updated:
12/03/2012 09:18:42 PM EST

CHELMSFORD -- The town is working on an application seeking state approval to ban trucks on Golden Cove Road, where residents are fighting to make the residential street safer from what they say is potential danger with high-volume, fast-moving traffic.

The road, which connects Routes 129 and 110, used to have signs banning large trailers but they were taken down years ago by the state Department of Transportation. Since then, traffic, especially from large trucks traveling to or from Interstate 495, has soared, residents told selectmen Monday.

"It's a major safety issue," said Ralph Barisano, who lives on Golden Cove Road near Dawn Drive, a quiet residential street that residents said is sometimes used as a cut-through for drivers seeking to avoid traffic backups. "It really is nasty out there."

Town Engineer Stephen Jahnle is working on an application for the state to put back signs banning large trailers from the street, Town Manager Paul Cohen said.

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